Han country, imperial palace.

"Baby girl, you've worked hard this time." Emperor Han Wen looked at Su Zhijing gently, and there was a hint of helplessness and apology between his eyebrows.

Su Zhijing is his favorite woman, if it weren't for the difficult state affairs, he would be reluctant to send Su Zhijing to get married.

Su Zhijing looked at the loving father in front of her, and her eyes were in a trance.

Would a gentle person like his father collude with a cult like the White Bone Palace?

No!

No, it won't!

The father must have been deceived by traitors.

Su Zhijing secretly encouraged herself in her heart, Qiong took a deep breath, and asked straight to the point.

"Father, my daughter wants to ask about an important matter."

"Marriage? This matter ......" Emperor Han Wen was halfway through his words, when he saw Su Zhijing shaking his head, and asked as soon as he changed the conversation.

"It's not a marriage, what else is going on?"

Emperor Han Wen's eyes showed a hint of suspicion, and he always felt that today's baby daughter seemed to have something in her heart.

"Father, do you have any connection with the White Bone Palace?" Su Zhijing summoned up the courage in her heart and asked, her eyes looking directly at Emperor Han Wen's face.

Emperor Han Wen laughed.

"How could Father have a connection with the White Bone Palace?"

"For hundreds of years, the White Bone Hall and the Wu Kingdom have been fighting each other, and they are like fire and water. Now that our Han country is asking for Wu State, how can we contact the White Bone Hall and anger Wu State? ”

Emperor Han Wen's words were said very calmly, and there was no trace of concealment of falsification.

Hearing this, Su Zhijing breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

"Father, my daughter got the news that the old nest of the White Bone Hall is in the Jiangdu."

"Really?"

Emperor Han Wen stood up suddenly, his right hand gripping the edge of the desk tightly, as if he was about to crush the edge of the solid wood.

His face was full of shock, and after the shock, he showed a thick sadness.

"Zhijing, is your information reliable?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wu Kingdom told me personally." Su Zhijing said truthfully.

Emperor Han Wen's face changed one after another, gloomy and uncertain, as if the sky changed when he said it.

"Could it be, it was the prince of Wu who made a mistake!" In Emperor Han Wen's heart, there was still a trace of luck.

Su Zhijing did not continue to hide it, and told Emperor Han Wen bluntly.

"Father, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he has secretly followed his daughter's convoy and came to Jiangdu!"

Hearing that Ji Tianci was actually in Jiangdu and began to investigate the matter of the White Bone Palace, Emperor Han Wen instantly realized.

Wu Guo is serious.

The old nest of the White Bone Hall is in Jiangdu, and it is true that nine times out of ten.

If it weren't for this, how could Wu Guo let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wu Kingdom secretly come to Jiangdu?

Emperor Han Wen's heart sank, and he sat silently on the dragon chair, his body had an indescribable heaviness, as if it had been poured lead.

As the monarch of a country, he is not weak in terms of wisdom or cultivation.

He naturally knew how bad the news was.

If there is no high-ranking and powerful person in the Han court to be a traitor, the White Bone Hall will definitely not be able to hide his eyes and take root in the Jiangdu.

After a while, it seemed that Emperor Han Wen had digested the shocking news and muttered softly.

"Did you find the news?"

"Who is covering the White Bone Temple?" Emperor Han Wen asked, his voice a little low and hoarse.

Su Zhijing hesitated, her red lips opening slightly.

"The Prime Minister's Mansion is most likely the lair of the White Bone Palace."

Just now, Ji Tianci had already told Su Zhijing the information of the Prime Minister's Mansion through the chat group.

In an instant, Emperor Han Wen's lonely expression made Su Zhijing very sad.

She knew very well the depth of the friendship between her father and the prime minister.

Suddenly told his father that the prime minister was likely to collude with the White Bone Palace, which was definitely a huge blow to his father.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is an important stronghold of the White Bone Palace.

Emperor Han Wen didn't have too many doubts about this news.

After all, the Kingdom of Wu has been fighting with the White Bone Hall for hundreds of years, and there must be a lot of means to be able to discover the stronghold of the White Bone Palace.

It's just that Emperor Han Wen recalled the bits and pieces between him and Tao Tianming when he was young, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, as well as ...... A hint of luck that cannot be described in words.

Perhaps, Tianming, like himself, was deceived by his subordinates.

"Zhijing, investigate the matter of the White Bone Palace's lair, and my father will hand it over to you."

"Any resources and manpower, you can apply to your father."

"But there is only one point, you can't do anything to the prime minister without full evidence."

Hearing that Emperor Han Wen was willing to investigate, Su Zhijing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart.

What she was most worried about before was that Emperor Han Wen had collusion with the White Bone Palace, or there was no collusion, but she couldn't bear to do anything to Tao Tianming.

Now Emperor Han Wen's statement has put down the big stone in her heart.

As for whether the White Bone Hall would overturn the national capital of Han State, Su Zhijing was not worried at all.

Now it is not only their Han Kingdom that is dealing with the White Bone Palace, but also the powerful Wu Kingdom.

After getting the authorization of Emperor Han Wen, Su Zhijing used a secret agent who only belonged to Emperor Han Wen and began to investigate all the characters and events related to Tao Tianming.

Princess's Mansion, Study.

Ji Tianci and Su Zhijing discussed the matters of the investigation.

"There are many people in the White Bone Palace, and it is impossible for them all to be concentrated in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"In addition to the Prime Minister's Mansion, there must be other strongholds in Jiangdu."

"The construction of the stronghold and the supply of materials are not created out of thin air, and they will definitely leave traces."

"These traces, not surprisingly, must be inextricably linked to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"This is the focus of your next investigation."

Although Su Zhijing is a novice, she has never taken over the experience of investigating cases.

But Ji Tianci has led the Hanging Mirror Division, and the most basic investigation plan, Ji Tianci is still handy.

"If everyone related to the Prime Minister's Mansion has to investigate, this workload is too much, and it will definitely not be able to find out in a while!" Cao Tajiang reminded on the side.

Cao Tajiang, the leader of the secret agents of the Han Kingdom.

His status in the Han Kingdom is equivalent to that of the leader of the Wu State Shadow Guard.

"Is there so many people involved?" Ji Tianci asked rhetorically, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"There are not many people directly related to Tao Tianming, but there are too many people who are indirectly related." Cao Tajiang sighed and said with a frown.

"Tao Tianming has the title of a great benevolent person in Hanguo, and every year Tao Tianming will adopt a group of homeless orphans."

"Adopt an orphan?"

"A lot?"

"There are thousands of people every year, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 people in more than 20 years!" Cao Tajiang said.

If all these 20,000 or 30,000 people were to be investigated, how long would it take?

Hearing that Tao Tianming would actually adopt twenty or thirty thousand orphans, Ji Tianci's first reaction was that something was not right.

"Aren't you afraid that Tao Tianming will train these orphans into dead soldiers?"

Twenty or thirty thousand dead soldiers, if they are trained, may be able to train an army of good strength.

"According to Tao Tianming, when these orphans grow up, they all go to his manor to become tenant farmers, and they will not stay in Jiangdu, so Your Majesty doesn't take things too seriously."

"Moreover, over the years, Jiang Duzhong has indeed not seen these orphans again."

"As long as it doesn't threaten the throne, Your Majesty will turn a blind eye to Tao Tianming's expansion of his influence."

"After all, the relationship between His Majesty and Tao Tianming is ......"

Cao Tajiang didn't continue, but Ji Tianci was clear in his heart.

"In this case, the matter of the orphan will be handed over to the orphan to investigate." Ji Tianci took the initiative to ask Ying to say.

Ji Tianci always felt that the matter of adopting orphans was a little weird.

It's not that it's weird to adopt orphans, but that Tao Tianming has adopted too much.

Thousands of people are adopted every year, as if they are accomplishing some kind of task.

Therefore, Ji Tianci is particularly attentive.

"It just so happens that Tao Tianming has just adopted orphans this year, and these orphans are in one of Tao Tianming's other courtyards." Cao Tajiang said.

After getting the news, Ji Tianci did not stay, and went directly to the other courtyard to investigate.

(End of chapter)